Okay, trying this again, hopefully less fail. After exploring the top-left part of my map i suddenly had a drop in performance right after running into a big biter town. I thought it might just have been the biters, but after killing them the game still ran slowly. It's not a crippling drop in performance but it IS noticeable from before i ran into the base.
Savegame DL:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/urcq7 ... xplore.rar
[0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
Re: [0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
Hello, thank you for the report and mainly for the save.
This is the biggest save I have seen so far.
9k solar panels 15k turrets, and lots of other stuff.
All I can say is, that we can use this save for testing the performance optimisations, I analysed quickly what makes the game slower, and big part of the stuff will be much faster when we implement some of the opmisations we have in mind.
But I didn't find any slowdowns related to enemies and explorations, just the factory machines update times.
P.S. The game was many times slower few versions back, and there was always someone who found the edge of the engine capabilities, and we always used the save to optimise the game to be smooth again in the next update, I believe it will be the case with your save, but until than there is nothing else I can do.
This is the biggest save I have seen so far.
9k solar panels 15k turrets, and lots of other stuff.
All I can say is, that we can use this save for testing the performance optimisations, I analysed quickly what makes the game slower, and big part of the stuff will be much faster when we implement some of the opmisations we have in mind.
But I didn't find any slowdowns related to enemies and explorations, just the factory machines update times.
P.S. The game was many times slower few versions back, and there was always someone who found the edge of the engine capabilities, and we always used the save to optimise the game to be smooth again in the next update, I believe it will be the case with your save, but until than there is nothing else I can do.
Re: [0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
I just found it really really weird because the game wasn't lagging until the exact moment i ran out and explored. The save is at a point where everything is paused, i had the same save running with 6 trains, 4k+ drones derping around and all the production lines running and i've never had a drop in performance before that.
Also as a sidenote you guys are doing an awesome job making this run as well as it's allready doing
Always wanted to make big factories in buildcraft and performance just always tanked when you got just a coupple of quarries running, can't wait for oil will be sooo sweeet <3<3<3
Also as a sidenote you guys are doing an awesome job making this run as well as it's allready doing
Always wanted to make big factories in buildcraft and performance just always tanked when you got just a coupple of quarries running, can't wait for oil will be sooo sweeet <3<3<3Re: [0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
I just want to let you know, that I'm not ignoring this and I'm working on the optimising for the few last days.
The game update time (of one tick) in your factory was 29ms (it needs to be less than 15 for fluent game as there are 1000 ms in second and the game is 60 fps).
I was able to get it from these 29ms to 18.2ms on my machine by optimising the logistic network in special case (You had a lot of pending robots that have not a destination for their cargo) and overall electric network update optimisations.
The next thing I need to go for are inserters, they eat a lot even when they have nothing to do.
The game update time (of one tick) in your factory was 29ms (it needs to be less than 15 for fluent game as there are 1000 ms in second and the game is 60 fps).
I was able to get it from these 29ms to 18.2ms on my machine by optimising the logistic network in special case (You had a lot of pending robots that have not a destination for their cargo) and overall electric network update optimisations.
The next thing I need to go for are inserters, they eat a lot even when they have nothing to do.
Re: [0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
So I got to update of 5.5 ms.
In other words, your game will be more than 5 times faster to simulate, so I consider this issue to be closed.
P.S. I have still lot of tricks saved for later
In other words, your game will be more than 5 times faster to simulate, so I consider this issue to be closed.
P.S. I have still lot of tricks saved for later
Re: [0.8.7]Performance Drop after Exploring
Wow, that is an incredible improvement 
I'm now really looking forward to 0.9, considering my savegame was also starting to run slower and slower.
I'm now really looking forward to 0.9, considering my savegame was also starting to run slower and slower.
Ignore this